Amos 2:13
Look, I will crush you 1 as a cart that is full of grain can crush someone. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
In Context
12But you persuaded the Nazirites to drink wine 1 and commanded the prophets not to prophesy. 1
Cross References
Job 39:12Will you depend on him to bring your grain home, 1 to gather the grain for your threshing floor? 1
Isaiah 1:14I hate your new moons and your appointed feasts; 1 they are a burden to me; I am tired of enduring them. 1
Isaiah 43:24You have bought me no sweet-smelling cane with money, neither have you poured out to me the fat of your sacrifices; 1 but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your evil deeds. 1
Ezekiel 16:43Because you did not call to mind the days of your youth and have made me shake with anger because of all these things, therefore, behold! I myself will bring down on your own head the punishment for what you have done—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration. Have you not added prostitution to all your other detestable practices?
Matthew Henry on Amos 2:10-16
God's Remonstrance with Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord . 12 But… Read the whole commentary →